Political Structures: Democracy

This book analyzes the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the d...

The Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College (MAO), that became the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in 1920 drew the Muslim elite into its orbit and was a...

In this book, George Robert Bateman, Jr. presents a philosophical examination of the potential benefits of participatory budgeting (PB), with recom...

This book explores the various ways in which citizens are represented in EU policy-making. Most accounts naturally focus on the European Parliament...

An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinkerSheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and ori...

Politics in Pakistan has traditionally been understood in the context of civil-military relationship. In May 2013, for the first time in history, P...

Democracy has become disentangled from our ordinary lives. Mere cooperation or ethical consumption now often stands in for a robust concept of soli...

Kenya’s 2007 General Election results announcement precipitated the worst ethnic conflict in the country’s history; 1,133 people were killed, while...

How the creation of money and monetary policy can be more democraticThe power to create money is foundational to the state. In the United States, t...

The Kurdish question remains one of the most important and complicated issues in ethnic politics in contemporary times, with the Kurds being one of...

How can education protect and strengthen democracy?In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system—al...

Less than two years after winning the 2013 elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to dissolve his government, paving ...

This book reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.S. administrations developed with the Shah of Iran between 1950 and 197...

This book examines the period of political violence in Turkey between 12 March 1971 and 12 September 1980. It sets out a close analysis of the tact...

Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, originally published in 1993, has been called a founding text of agonism, which treats political...

The central, driving theme of this volume is democracy, its vicissitudes and its possibilities in Latin America. Guillermo O’Donnell considers the ...

There is a growing realization that many of the problems afflicting American elections can be traced to the electoral system itself, in particular ...

The global movement toward democracy, spurred in part by the ending of the cold war, has created opportunities for democratization not only in Euro...

This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s engrossing history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prologue that discusses the hist...

The Polycentric Republic presents a compelling and innovative critique of modern social contract theory. It reveals how the social contract theory ...

In Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, Michael Walzer revises and extends the arguments in his influential Spheres of Justice, frami...